My favorite sage once told me "better look out" else you won't "see" :-) This is a wanderer's wanderlust !!, an attempt to navigate through the omnipresent urban blindness, albeit without any kind compass, and yet, inadvertently and magically, stumble upon the ever elusive truth.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Some nostalgic pictures - A rarity to have - Needs to be preserved!15th August 1947, First News Paper of INDEPENDENT INDIA

DAIRY MILK CHOCOLATE 1905 TO 1999 Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky An Awesome paint of Leonardo da vinci The front page of the April 16, 1912 evening edition of the Boston Globe, detailing the Titanic Disaster is shown The Elephant Rock - 1858 Star Cinema ( now at Pakistan ) 1943 Shooting-the-mgm-lion-logo-in-1924 Incomplete Howrah bridge 1935 Howrah Bridge under construction... 1942... HOWRAH BRIDGE Calcutta bus stand near Howrah bridge, most likely on the Howrah station side of the Hooghly River 1944 view of the hoogly river at 1880 Last time Netaji was arrested by British police A rare one of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his wife Eimilie Shenkl Gandhi ji with his wife Kasturba Gandhi the crown of India Maharani of Jaipur Gayatri Devi - 1940's The last train , Dhaka to Calcutta!!! Taken in 1947 British India and Afghanistan border - 1934 Gandhi-ji with Netaji 1932 Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhulabhai Desai, and Rajendra Prasad (Center) at the AICC Session, April 1939 Chatim talay gurudeber janmodin 1937â€¦ Rabindranath Thakur Sharat Chandra with Surendranath Bagha Jatin deho rakhchen thakur ramkrishna paramahansa deb rare picture of the family of maa sarada devi 1968 shayam bazar more Family of Indira Gandhi July 1983 Indira Gandhi felicitates Kapil Dev, captain of Indian cricket team Satyajit Roy only 22 years old , picture taken at 1943 Asha, Mukesh , Lata , Kishore & Manna rare picture of Kishore kumar & Bhupen Hazarika awesome picture of RK, dilip sahab and Dev anand Amit ji with his mom Teji bachan.... Jaya with her son & daughter

C. V. Raman - The Great Indian Physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS (7 November 1888 â€“ 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect The original picture of Jhansi Rani Laxmi Bai. This picture has been taken by German photographer Hoffman 160 years ago This was how the Taj Mahal was protected from bomber jets in 1942 during world war. It was covered with huge scaffold, to make it look like a stockpile of bamboo and misguide bombers. The covering is still incomplete in this photo. The whole of Taj Mahal was covered but this picture shows only the main dome covered. The govt. didnâ€™t allow any photographers later to shoot the final scaffold cover. During the India-Pakistan war in 1971, it was protected by covering it with a green cloth and making it almost invisible i.e. camouflaged within the greenery around it. Even in 2001, after the Sep 11 attack, Archaeological Survey of India took up the precautionary measure to cover it with cloth and it took them more than 20 days to do that!!

"My kick the bucket" list

** 1. Scale Everest.** 2. Bike down to Leh3. Publish a work of fiction.** 4. Run a 42k Marathon.5. Do a 3 month Vipaasna course6. Motor down to Leh7. Visit the Golden Temple8. Watch a Roger Waters Concert9. Write a book of poems (not necessarily publish)

(** refers to items which the defeatist in me feels I shall never achieve.....)